Chloris flagellifera is a species of flowering plant in the grass family Poaceae, native from Morocco in North Africa through the Arabian Peninsula to northwestern India.

[1] The species was first described by Christian Nees in 1842 as Eleusine flagellifera.

[2] It was transferred to the genus Chloris in 2015.

[1] It has also been placed in the genus Ochthochloa,[1] which is now considered a synonym of Chloris.

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